SIGNED GIO. BOTTI, CIRCA 1730

Details

A Fine 25-Bore Flintlock Sporting Gun
Signed Gio. Botti, circa 1730
With sighted two-stage barrel with a ring at the muzzle, engraved 'Lazarino Cominazzo' on the fluted octagonal breech, and with stepped ramp at the rear, plain tang with folding back-sight, signed rounded lock struck on the inside with a locksmith's mark, 'CF'(?) crowned, and partly chiselled in relief in the Brescian manner with monster-heads and scrollwork on a punched ground, moulded varnished figured walnut full stock with fluted butt, and cheek-piece, gilt-brass mounts cast and chased in relief in the Brescian manner, gilt-brass fore-end cap, trigger-plate and ramrod-pipes en suite, and original ramrod with gilt-brass tip, in virtually unused condition throughout, and retaining its barrel tampion
34½in. (87.6cm.) barrel

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

Lot Essay

Originally part of a garniture comprising a pair of pistols, a gun, and a rifle - see J.F. Hayward, The Art of the Gunmaker, vol. II, pp. 134-5
Cf. lots 126 and 248 in W. Keith Neal Collection sale of 9 November 2000

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